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Jan. 9th, 2004 04:55 pmToday has been very... purple for me. ;^)
Jan. 9th, 2004
Back to the future...
Jan. 9th, 2004 07:14 pmI'm dubious of the latest plan... abandoning the shuttle in a couple of years, reverting to a capsule architecture to go back to the Moon by 2013. But at least they have the rationale for the Moon (correctly, IMO) being to prepare to go to Mars by 2020. Otherwise, the Moon itself is close enough that we can easily explore it with telerobotics at much lower cost. Mars, on the other hand, needs humans there because of the transmission lags to Earth.
Now, for the details... what I've heard of the plan thus far sounds like it was written by the JSC old-guard.
Now, for the details... what I've heard of the plan thus far sounds like it was written by the JSC old-guard.